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Author:
Heike Bruch, Bernd Vogel
Recommended Retail Price:
R185.00 (GIBSWare – on campus store)
Publisher:
Harvard Business School Press (2011, 288 pages) |
As you're well aware, your individual energy ebbs and flows – leading to high and low productivity cycles. Fail to manage your energy correctly and you risk falling into traps including inertia, complacency and frenzied, unfocused activity that only erodes the quality of your life. The same holds true for your entire organisation.
In Fully Charged, Heike Bruch and Bernd Vogel provide tools and strategies to help you manage your company's collective energy. First, diagnose your company's "energy state" using the Organisational Energy Matrix. By assessing the intensity (high or low) and the quality (positive or negative) of the energy in your enterprise, you discover which of four energy states your company is experiencing. Second, move your company out of dangerous states characterised by complacency, cynicism, aggression, withdrawal and other perils. By applying practices mastered by companies as diverse as Airbus, Novartis, SAPand Tata Steel, you can shift your firm into a state of high, positive energy – in which everyone is emotionally engaged, mentally alert and working swiftly and productively toward critical goals.
Practical and backed by extensive research, Fully Charged reveals how to continually refresh your company's energy – so it's always ready to tackle the next period of high demand.
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